Procedurally Animate Handwriting in Blender | Blender Tutorial

Hey everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, I hope you’re all doing well. In this video I go over how you can use geometry nodes to instantly create animated handwriting in Blender. The effect is remarkably simple, even if the nodes are a bit janky.

Values to reverse for “Tiny Tricks” font: 126, 217, 42, 103, 172, 74, 236, 155, 94, 111, 360, 205, 225, 35, 204, 239, 381

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[louischouinard]

I got it to work exactly as shown using Blender 4.3 and it worked fine. The only changes I made were the ones I suggested yesterday to make the network of conditional curve reversal shown at 7:15 a bit simpler and more flexible.

[AlaskanFX]

I can’t post polls yet, so comment below if you want the next video to be a beginner tutorial on the new official simulation nodes in Blender 3.5 geometry nodes!

[brighttendaimuvirimi]

Delighted with the tutorial, here is my mental hug subscription

[louischouinard]

Thank you very much for this video, it was very helpfull. Maybe a few suggestions to improve it as new geo nodes are now available to simpify the workflow...
1) The "Curve Info" node could be used to get the index of each spline in the text curve (the index of each letter in the string) to simplify the separation of letters instead of relying on length. This removes any dependency on the specific details of the font itself.
2) An "Index Switch" node can then use this index to select from a list of booleans which splines need to be reversed. Exposing the inputs of this switch in the "Group Input" let you adapt this list to the individual letters in any string you create.

[sorenstorm]

Wow that was great - nice tutorial! I am looking into if I can make a switch between after effects and blender. And this truly looks amazing when dealing with the pretty old fashion ways after effects does graphics. :-) I know they are very different programs - but it seems like blender covers a lot of my usecases :-)

[nhlakaaa]

When I add colour to the text...the colour doesnt change. How can i fix that

[ilirbeqiri]

Cool video. Just a suggestion though. You can use the spline index number to select the ones that you need flipped. Keep rocking! 🤘

[clarissa]

This is amazing. Thank you for the tutorials ❤️

[Raj_K_C]

very nice video bro,
how to change font round shape to square ?
and give some bounce effect in font? please reply

[alexandreuroz]

Amazing ! It reminds me of the scene in Matilda when the chalk wrote a threatening message to Trunchbull. I wonder if we could recreate this in vfx.

[david-d]

Thanks, it's amazing. And I'm wondering if you can post a short tutorial about how to do the dynamic painting on the canvas to achieve such effect?

[YusufES]

@7:03 Where to find our own text starting spesific number? i find it frame by frame...

[benderbaer]

Thanks for the tutorial, i need to know, how to get the information of the reversal positions, because im using a different string

[FelinaFaerlaingal]

This is amazing but finding a font that works is haaaard! A lot of fonts I tried to use give me a 'contour' curve. As in, it doesn't do a single line for each letter, it traces the contour of the letter, which screw up the rest of the nodes.

[KIFDRAKON]

Good day or night. Thank you for an interesting lesson. Everything is beautiful and interesting with fonts. When I inserted the SVG drawing, I encountered an error or did not understand the lesson. Curves are drawn by 40-60 percent. What is the reason for this and how it can be cured or corrected.

[Gladiator-xtde]

Very helpful video ☺. Is it possible to share your .blend file, you showed as example in this video?

[BryanPena]

idk how anyone got it to work, I followed it step by step. at 2:38 it no longer works for me. i literally don't know what to do. Is everyone using the latest blender? or did yall go back to 3.3 for this project? :(

[dhyowiify]

Great tutorial! Thanks for this. Can this be adapted to using thicker script texts?

[andrewgallacher]

Hello I got everything set up but I am having trouble adding material to the text. Where in the nodes do I add the Set Material Node? I have tried in multiple areas but nothing seems to be working for me

[md.nur-e-riyadsharon]

That's a great turorial dude. How can I achieve that exact paint brush effect @0:08 yours one looks too good. :)